Container



Patented Aug. 11, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALFRED E. BRUNS, OF HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

TO METAL PACKAGE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COR- PORATION OF DELAWARE CONTAINER This invention relates to that class of containers, preferably metallic in character, which are employed to contain commodities or foodstuffs, either granulated, ground, pulverized, flaked or otherwise pourable in character.

The principal object of the'invention is the production of a container, simply constructed, which shall permit the ultimate consumer of the contents of the container to m ascertain with facility and by inspection whether the jobber or retailer or others have substituted other goods for those originally supplied by the manufacturer or original producer thus obviating the possibility of a L5 fraud being perpetrated on the ultimate consumer.

Other and further objects of the invention will appear from the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a container constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper part of the container showing the cover in a 515 different position. r

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the upper portion of the container showing a modificaso tion.

1 indicates the body of the container which is preferablymetallic in character and which is provided adjacent its upper end with an inverted head 2 forming a neck 3.

:55 4 indicates a rotatable non-removable cover the lower edge 5 of which is turned inwardly to slidably interfit with the bead 2.

The neck 3 is slotted, indented, scored or the metal otherwise marked to provide a deformed or weakened tab or area of metal 6 which may be of any configuration. The side of the cover 4 is also provided with an opening 7 forming a window which may be brought into register with the weakened portion 6 when the cover is rotated.

When the container reaches the consumer the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1. To obtain access to the contents the consumer rotates the cover until the opening 7 registers with the weakened portion 6. If

the weakened portion 6 has not been mutilated or depressed the contents has not been tampered with. He then presses the portion 6 inwardly with any suitable tool or instrument into the position shown in Fig. 3 after which the contents may be poured through the opening 7 To close the container the cover is merely rotated back into the position shown in Fig. 1.

It will be understood that the weakened portion and opening in the cover may be of any convenient shape and size such, for instance, as shown at 8 and 9 respectively in Fig. 4. It will also be understood that the weakened portion and opening may also be sealed with any suitable sealing material such as gummed tape, paper, cellophane or viscose.

What I claim as myinvention is:

A container provided with an inverted bead adjacent its upper end to form a neck and having a weakened portion in said neck and a non-removable cover having its lower edge slidably interfitting with said inverted bead and provided with an opening adapted to be brought into registry with said weakened portion.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this 27 th day of December, A. D. 1928.

ALFRED E. BRUNS.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,818,605. Granted August 11, .1931, to

ALFRED n. BRUNS.

It is hereby certified that the assignee in the above numbered patent was erroneously described and specified as "Metal Package Corporation of New York, of New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware", whereas said assignee should have been described and specified as Metal Package Corporation, of New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware, as shown by the records of assignments in this office; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 22nd day of September, A. D. 1931.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

